Firebird Local Inet_Server Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

BID:17077

Info

Firebird Local Inet_Server Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID: 17077
Class: Boundary Condition Error
CVE:
Remote: No
Local: Yes
Published: Mar 13 2006 12:00AM
Updated: Mar 14 2006 07:25PM
Credit: Discovery of this vulnerability is credited to Joxean Koret <[email protected]>.
Vulnerable: Firebird Firebird 1.5.2
Firebird Firebird 1.5.1
Firebird Firebird 1.5
Not Vulnerable: Firebird Firebird 1.5.3

Discussion

Firebird Local Inet_Server Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

Firebird is susceptible to a local buffer-overflow vulnerability. This issue is due to the application's failure to properly check boundaries of user-supplied command-line argument data before copying it to an insufficiently sized memory buffer.

Attackers may exploit this issue to execute arbitrary machine code with elevated privileges, because the affected binaries are often installed with setuid privileges.

Exploit / POC

Firebird Local Inet_Server Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

The following command will demonstrate this issue:
./fbserver -p `perl -e 'print "a"x155;'`1234

Currently we are not aware of any exploits for this issue. If you feel we are in error or are aware of more recent information, please mail us at: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>.

Solution / Fix

Firebird Local Inet_Server Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

Solution:
The vendor has released version 1.5.3 of Firebird to address this issue.


Firebird Firebird 1.5

Firebird Firebird 1.5.1

Firebird Firebird 1.5.2

References

Firebird Local Inet_Server Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

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